The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep Quotes

“The best response to negative emotion is to allow it to self-liberate by remaining in clear”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep: Practices for Awakening

“Because karmic traces are the roots of dreams, when they are entirely exhausted only the pure light of awareness remains: no movie, no story, no dreamer, and no dream, only the Luminous fundamental nature that is absolute reality. This is why enlightenment is the end of dreams and is known as 'awakening”
― Tènzin Wangyal Rinpoché, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep: Practices for Awakening

“When the conceptual mind is free of grasping an aversion, it spontaneously relaxes into unfabricated rigpa. Then there is no longer an identification with the reflections in the mirror and we can effortlessly accommodate all that arises in experience, appreciating every moment. If hatred arises, the mirror is filled with hatred. When love arises the mirror is filled with love. For the mirror itself, neither love nor hatred is significant: both are equally a manifestation of its innate capacity to reflect. This is known as the mirror-like wisdom; when we recognize the nature of mind and develop the ability to abide in it, no emotional state distracts us.”
― Tènzin Wangyal Rinpoché, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep: Practices for Awakening

“A crystal does not make light; its natural function is simply to radiate light. The mirror does not select a face to reflect: its nature is to reflect everything. When we understand that everything arising, including our conventional sense of self, is only a projection of mind, then we are free. Without this understanding, it is as if we take a mirage to be real, and echo to be a sound not our own. The sense of separation is strong and we become trapped in an illusory dualism.”
― Tènzin Wangyal Rinpoché, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep: Practices for Awakening